The Nephila clavipes genome highlights the diversity of spider silk genes and their complex expression

Spider phylogenomics: untangling the Spider Tree of Life

(2016) Nicole L. Garrison et al.   PeerJ

BUSCO: assessing genome assembly and annotation completeness with single-copy orthologs

(2015) Felipe A. Simão et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Proteomic Evidence for Components of Spider Silk Synthesis from Black Widow Silk Glands and Fibers

(2015) Ro Crystal Chaw et al.   JOURNAL OF PROTEOME RESEARCH

Toward spinning artificial spider silk

(2015) Anna Rising et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

Intrahost Dynamics of Antiviral Resistance in Influenza A Virus Reflect Complex Patterns of Segment Linkage, Reassortment, and Natural Selection

(2015) Matthew B. Rogers et al.   mBio

Trimmomatic: a flexible trimmer for Illumina sequence data

(2014) Anthony M. Bolger et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Intragenic homogenization and multiple copies of prey-wrapping silk genes in Argiope garden spiders

(2014) R Chaw et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Multi-tissue transcriptomics of the black widow spider reveals expansions, co-options, and functional processes of the silk gland gene toolkit

(2014) Thomas H Clarke et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Phylogenomics Resolves a Spider Backbone Phylogeny and Rejects a Prevailing Paradigm for Orb Web Evolution

(2014) Jason E. Bond et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The InterPro protein families database: the classification resource after 15 years

(2014) Alex Mitchell et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

UniProt: a hub for protein information

(2014)   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

High-Toughness Silk Produced by a Transgenic Silkworm Expressing Spider (Araneus ventricosus) Dragline Silk Protein

(2014) Yoshihiko Kuwana et al.   PLoS One

Carbonic Anhydrase Generates CO2 and H+ That Drive Spider Silk Formation Via Opposite Effects on the Terminal Domains

(2014) Marlene Andersson et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Nephila clavipes Flagelliform Silk-Like GGX Motifs Contribute to Extensibility and Spacer Motifs Contribute to Strength in Synthetic Spider Silk Fibers

(2013) Sherry L. Adrianos et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Complex gene expression in the dragline silk producing glands of the Western black widow (Latrodectus hesperus)

(2013) Amanda Lane et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Spit and Venom from Scytodes Spiders: A Diverse and Distinct Cocktail

(2013) Pamela A. Zobel-Thropp et al.   JOURNAL OF PROTEOME RESEARCH

A molecular phylogeny of nephilid spiders: Evolutionary history of a model lineage

(2013) Matjaž Kuntner et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

De novo transcript sequence reconstruction from RNA-seq using the Trinity platform for reference generation and analysis

(2013) Brian J Haas et al.   Nature Protocols

WebAUGUSTUS--a web service for training AUGUSTUS and predicting genes in eukaryotes

(2013) K. J. Hoff et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Carbon nanotubes on a spider silk scaffold

(2013) Eden Steven et al.   Nature Communications

A Proteomics and Transcriptomics Investigation of the Venom from the Barychelid Spider Trittame loki (Brush-Foot Trapdoor)

(2013) Eivind Undheim et al.   Toxins

Assemblathon 2: evaluating de novo methods of genome assembly in three vertebrate species

(2013) Keith R Bradnam et al.   GigaScience

STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner

(2012) Alexander Dobin et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data

(2012) M. Kearse et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Mapping single molecule sequencing reads using basic local alignment with successive refinement (BLASR): application and theory

(2012) Mark J Chaisson et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Small Organic Solutes in Sticky Droplets from Orb Webs of the SpiderZygiella atrica(Araneae; Araneidae):β-Alaninamide Is a Novel and Abundant Component

(2012) Mark A. Townley et al.   CHEMISTRY & BIODIVERSITY

Spider Glue Proteins Have Distinct Architectures Compared with Traditional Spidroin Family Members

(2012) Keshav Vasanthavada et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Ancient Properties of Spider Silks Revealed by the Complete Gene Sequence of the Prey-Wrapping Silk Protein (AcSp1)

(2012) Nadia A. Ayoub et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Early Events in the Evolution of Spider Silk Genes

(2012) James Starrett et al.   PLoS One

Mind the Gap: Upgrading Genomes with Pacific Biosciences RS Long-Read Sequencing Technology

(2012) Adam C. English et al.   PLoS One

FastUniq: A Fast De Novo Duplicates Removal Tool for Paired Short Reads

(2012) Haibin Xu et al.   PLoS One

Silkworms transformed with chimeric silkworm/spider silk genes spin composite silk fibers with improved mechanical properties

(2012) F. Teule et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

SOAPdenovo2: an empirically improved memory-efficient short-read de novo assembler

(2012) Ruibang Luo et al.   GigaScience

The variant call format and VCFtools

(2011) P. Danecek et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

A statistical framework for SNP calling, mutation discovery, association mapping and population genetical parameter estimation from sequencing data

(2011) H. Li   BIOINFORMATICS

MAKER2: an annotation pipeline and genome-database management tool for second-generation genome projects

(2011) Carson Holt et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome

(2011) Manfred G Grabherr et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Synthetic Spider Silk Fibers Spun from Pyriform Spidroin 2, A Glue Silk Protein Discovered in Orb-Weaving Spider Attachment Discs†

(2010) Paul Geurts et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Untangling spider silk evolution with spidroin terminal domains

(2010) Jessica E Garb et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Silk gene transcripts in the developing tubuliform glands of the Western black widow, Latrodectus hesperus

(2010) Merri L. Casem et al.   JOURNAL OF ARACHNOLOGY

Egg Formation in Lepidoptera

(2010) William H. Telfer   JOURNAL OF INSECT SCIENCE

A conserved spider silk domain acts as a molecular switch that controls fibre assembly

(2010) Franz Hagn et al.   NATURE

Bioprospecting Finds the Toughest Biological Material: Extraordinary Silk from a Giant Riverine Orb Spider

(2010) Ingi Agnarsson et al.   PLoS One

Chromosome Mapping of Dragline Silk Genes in the Genomes of Widow Spiders (Araneae, Theridiidae)

(2010) Yonghui Zhao et al.   PLoS One

High-quality draft assemblies of mammalian genomes from massively parallel sequence data

(2010) S. Gnerre et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools

(2009) H. Li et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Spider Web Glue: Two Proteins Expressed from Opposite Strands of the Same DNA Sequence

(2009) Omer Choresh et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Circos: An information aesthetic for comparative genomics

(2009) M. Krzywinski et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Pyriform Spidroin 1, a Novel Member of the Silk Gene Family That Anchors Dragline Silk Fibers in Attachment Discs of the Black Widow Spider,Latrodectus hesperus

(2009) Eric Blasingame et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Heat Treatment of the Adzuki Bean Borer,Ostrinia scapulalisInfected withWolbachiagives Rise to Sexually Mosaic Offspring

(2009) Hironori Sakamoto et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT SCIENCE

MEME SUITE: tools for motif discovery and searching

(2009) T. L. Bailey et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Reconstructing web evolution and spider diversification in the molecular era

(2009) T. A. Blackledge et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Using native and syntenically mapped cDNA alignments to improve de novo gene finding

(2008) Mario Stanke et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Identification and characterization of multipleSpidroin 1genes encoding major ampullate silk proteins inNephila clavipes

(2008) W. A. Gaines IV et al.   INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY